Weekend foodtrip at A’veneto

 

   Along with my date with M and S, we decided to eat at Avenetto for dinner. It was both S and I’s first time to dine out there. BF kept warning us that the servings are HUGE, but we or I didn’t pay attention to it. Here’s the food we ordered

                                                Family Appetizer P300+

    The platter consisted of sweet spicy chicken wings, crabsticks, potato balls, fries and the usual 2 dips of white and red sauce. The crabsticks and potato balls were the first to be wiped out in the platter. This is definitely worth ordering. The chicken was nice too, really crispy and not oily.

     I love anchovies and I was happy to see that they offer a slice of Howie (something) pizza for P90. It was so huge and I wasn’t even able to finish a slice. The anchovies were yummy, salty the way I like it.

   My friend S’s order, Carbonara, sorry no price available, but most probably not more than P200. I’d have to agree, their serving is definitely for sharing. I’m not a fan of white sauces too much, but when I tasted their version of carbonara, this sure was different to my palette. Different in a very good way. Next time, will ask M to bring me here. The bread was untouched though, didn’t look appealing.

    M recommended that we get their best seller the oil based pasta, instead of shrimp, we went for hungarian sausage for P265

    Really good, worth ordering. It’s now the kind of wow thing, but it’s good. Next time I’m going for the shrimp which costs P300+

 

    This pizza was called England something. M ordered a large one, this may look small but it was huge for a large sized pizza.

                                                                     Before

                                                                           After

      Still a lot of food left. Before the pizza came, which came last, S and I thought there weren’t any food arriving anymore. There was enough on the table and when M said: “guys there’s still pizza ha?”  I said: “shit!” haha~ it was like we were drowning in food already. But the good thing is?

    Lot’s of take out to bring home. I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to make a more detailed review about this restaurant when it comes to prices, I’ll make another review next time when BF and I will eat here. But over all, it was a treat! and worth going back to. One thing though that I didn’t like about the SM Megamall branch, the doors were open and I find it warm inside. I hated it! Till our next food trip~

 

 

   Till then!

 

  Meow..Meow..

Food review: Day 2 at Carlos Pizza Tagaytay

 

   For our lunch on our day 2 vacation, BF and I ate again at Carlos Pizza, I enjoyed my pasta and pizza, BF only loved their pizza. Here’s what we had

                             Calamari P200+ with 2 kinds of dip

   I find it quite pricey, but it was really soft and the white dip, garlic something was really really good. It had a few pieces of calamari.

                                                        Bolognese

                                       Italian sausage pasta

     BF had the bolognese (as usual), I had the italian pasta. My order was okay, a little bit spicy (just the way I like it), the sausages were good too. Nothing special but still good and worth trying. I forgot the prices though, but it both costs less than P190

                           Quattro formaggi  - with blue cheese L-O-V-E

                                               Abruzzi – all meat pizza

      The quattro formaggi was to die for, maybe because I love blue cheese, the abruzzi was good too, we had left overs which we had as midnight snack that night.

    Overall…

    I’d give the quattro 5/5 spoons. For drinks we had the usual bottomless ice tea. The first time we ate there with our friends (on our first day) our total bill cost us P2,100 (our orders were the same pizza, 2 calamari’s and 4 bottomless ice tea’s) they have service charge plus VAT sales.

   For our lunch, it cost us around P1000+ something. As for the pasta, I’d give mine  3/5 spoons, I liked the pasta I ordered at Piadina better though.

   Here are pictures of the place, the first photos were taken on day 1 night time, the rest are day 2photos for our lunch date.

    I really find the place romantic, specially at night with all the Christmas lights

   The name of the place is One plaza, which isn’t too hard to find along the road

                  Outside a panoramic view of taal lake

            *this photo was taken day 1                          

 

      Right after our lunch, we took a jeepney ride going to halfway zoo, will post about it tomorrow. By the way, there are branches of Carlos Pizza in the metro, they have one at SM Mall of Asia, I strongly recommend the quattro formaggi, that is if you are into blue cheese ;)

 

  Till my next post!

 

 Meow..Meow..

Food review: Piadina – dinner date

 

   Food review…

      We were supposedly to try out the Lechon Pizza at Pizza hut, but sadly, it was out of stock and it was only around 8PM. It was disappointing, the waitress told us that it was their best seller, so we opted to go somewhere else. We found Piadina at the 2nd floor of Robinson’s Galleria. It wasn’t our first time to eat here, but it seems the better choice at that time. Here’s a look of the ambiance

                          The BF playing with his new toy (Samsung digi cam)

   It was an open space area, just wished it had comfy couches.

    Food we ordered:

     For appetizer we had the Grissini – bread sticks with cheese dip

                                                                  P140

                                                                   the dip 

      For this order, we both rated it 4/5 spoons. It was really good! the cheese was not overpowering nor the umay kind. It was M who chose this and we sure weren’t disappointed. The bread was crunchy, good for sharing.

                                 Pizza – Quattro Formagi P350

    M and I loved Joey Pepperoni’s quattro formagi and we had to compare it with Piadina. This is waay different, Piadina’s formagi was not cheddary, but the cheese was very light and creamy (creamy light). This was a winner for our taste, we both rated it 4.5/spoons. We weren’t able to finish it, so I had them wrapped which will be my food for work tonight.

   

   I didn’t like their chili oil though, it tasted like the kind they use on siomai’s, so I skipped the chili oil and ate it as is.

On to pasta…

                                                     San Giorgino P180

 

   This was my order, there are 3 kinds of pasta dishes; meat, veggies and seafood. Because I was craving for salad, I went with the veggie pasta. The servings was big. The San Giorgino had tomatoes, fresh sun dried tomatoes and mozzarella, really yummy. Maybe a hint of lemon or olive oil and a little more garlic would definitely make this even yummier, to have a contrast of taste so to speak. But regardless, I enjoyed my order.

                                                        Bolognese P200

     M ordered this, it wasn’t in the menu but they said they can make one. Well, M is not into Italian pasta’s since it has a thin base. He likes a thick sauce (yung tipong kumakapit sa noodles), I don’t know how this tasted like, but he gave it a 2/5 spoons. That’s him, hehehe..

     Lastly, we had bottomless ice tea’s, and I was really happy about it because it was always refilled and cold. But that’s because there were only a few diners that ate at that time.

                                                       Regular Ice tea P70

   Here’s the chili oil I was talking about earlier

 

   Overall, the BF and I enjoyed our dinner, the pizza was good, the grisini and my veggie pasta. Total bill cost us P1,100~ we were definitely surprised, it was like we ate at a posh restaurant already (well almost). But it was because of the VAT.

My verdict: 4/5 spoons I definitely recommend the Grissini and the Formagi pizza.

Oh, and here’s a picture of us with my new hair cut, I just added some bangs and a simple layer

Till then!

 

Meow..Meow..